Technical talent, technical thinking, psychological test, professional orientation, gender, The Czech Republic

The article is a summary of the extensive research into a technical competence and technical profession preference of the senior primary grades. In total 1650 pupils from 6th, 7th and 8th classes of Moravian Silesian Region of the Czech Republic participate on the survey. The standard psychodiagnostic methods were used. In addition, a new method for measurement of technical and practical comprehension was created. Our results show, that there is no differences between girls and boys in intellectual abilities within the frame of single subtests. However statistically significant differences only appear in psychomotor tempo kills and visual perception in favor of girls. Boys have got higher performance in test of the technical and practical understanding.